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she was released after using her mother's house as bail. and i'm joined by haleh esfandiari, the director of the middle east program at the woodrow wilson international center for scholars. and karim sadjadpour, an associate at the carnegie endowment for international - elcome to both you. kareem, starting with you, what's known about what led to the release today? >> i think a few points worth mentioning. first is that there's no evidence against these three young hikers. the iranian government detained them august of 2009. they stopped interrogating them a couple months after their detention so i think when you talk to people connected to their lawyers in tehran, it's clear that the government didn't have any evidence against them. second, she has a health concern. she found a lump on her breast. i think the regime certainly didn't want to be put in a position where they would be responsible for her health. i'm not convinced that president ahmadinejad was responsible for her release, but i am convinced he will take credit for her release
she was released after using her mother's house as bail. and i'm joined by haleh esfandiari, the director of the middle east program at the woodrow wilson international center for scholars. and karim sadjadpour, an associate at the carnegie endowment for international - elcome to both you. kareem, starting with you, what's known about what led to the release today? >> i think a few points worth mentioning. first is that there's no evidence against these three young hikers. the iranian...
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they don't take care of us. so we better feed ourselves. now through porous borders and the defectors from north korea, maybe up to 20,000 in south koreas, basically north koreans are learning that they have to change. >> warner: a lot to walk. thank you both. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> ifill: again, the other major developments of the day. home prices rose again in july, thanks in part to a federal tax credit for home buyers. but consumer confidence was down this month to the lowest point since february. and former president jimmy carter was taken to a cleveland hospital after he got sick on a flight from atlanta. a grandson said he had a "stomach bug." and to hari sreenivasan, in our newsroom, for what's on the newshour online. hari? >> sreenivasan: if you're weighing whether to rent or buy a home, we rounded up online calculators to help you sort through the pros and cons. that's on the rundown. judy woodruff talks to the co- author of a new book that looks at the "up" side of earmarks. are they good for u.s. democracy? >> brown: and
they don't take care of us. so we better feed ourselves. now through porous borders and the defectors from north korea, maybe up to 20,000 in south koreas, basically north koreans are learning that they have to change. >> warner: a lot to walk. thank you both. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> ifill: again, the other major developments of the day. home prices rose again in july, thanks in part to a federal tax credit for home buyers. but consumer confidence was down this...
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she joins us from new york. welcome. >> thank you, gwen. >> ifill: arianna, i look at the cover of your book and i think to myself america is still the world's most prosperous nation. how do you define "third world"? >> well, i know it's a jarring phrase, gwen, but i chose it deliberatery because i felt that we needed a warning. we needed to sort of sound the alarm about the trajectory we're arm about the middle-class crumbling. and the middle-class is the foundation not just of our democracy and our prosperity but our political stability. and so as the middle-class is crumbling, we really have a certain time, a window during which we can course correct and turn things around. and i end the book on an optimistic note that we can do that, but only if we bring a sense of urgency to the undertaking. >> ifill: you're a political animal, when you say the middle-class is crumbling, what are the events you would say led us to this point? >> well, it has been going on for about 30 years. it didn't just happen because of
she joins us from new york. welcome. >> thank you, gwen. >> ifill: arianna, i look at the cover of your book and i think to myself america is still the world's most prosperous nation. how do you define "third world"? >> well, i know it's a jarring phrase, gwen, but i chose it deliberatery because i felt that we needed a warning. we needed to sort of sound the alarm about the trajectory we're arm about the middle-class crumbling. and the middle-class is the foundation...
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you've shown us the stalemate in iraq. has there been any movement to report in recent negotiations? are there any proposals on the table for breaking the stalemate? >> warner: well, ray, there are some proposals on the table that would help sort of power sharing arrangement between the two top vote getter, prime minister maliki, former prime minister allawi. but vice president biden came here to give the two sides a kick in the pants, if you will. and to say you have to get serious about talking to one another. and he told them that the u.s. administration is growing alarmed that some of these recent terrorist attacks we've seen aimed at government institutions-- army, police, municipal buildings-- are being encouraged by this political vacuum. so he talked you are the i do both of them. he said to maliki, "look, no one sells going to accept you as prime minister unless you give up some of the power you've accrued to yourself while prime minister." for instance, he has this 56th brigade and it's basically an army brigade
you've shown us the stalemate in iraq. has there been any movement to report in recent negotiations? are there any proposals on the table for breaking the stalemate? >> warner: well, ray, there are some proposals on the table that would help sort of power sharing arrangement between the two top vote getter, prime minister maliki, former prime minister allawi. but vice president biden came here to give the two sides a kick in the pants, if you will. and to say you have to get serious about...
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he joins us from pittsburgh. i ben welcome, thanks for joining us. 1.4 billion is a lot of money and what's been tough times for the airlines, why is southwest doing this, what is driving this? >> there are ray couple of things. first of all, as you mentioned sot west has been at there for a while now. while they were the scrappy upstart in the '80s and even into the 9 0s. their business model is pretty mature at this point and there aren't many misses left for them to expand that are flarl fits are for their business model. one of the best cities and the biggest one they don't yet fly to is atlanta so it's no coincidence that air tran, biggest city is atlanta and this will put southwest into atlanta in a big way. and it really positions southwest to go back to a position of growth by acquiring air tran and eventually incorporating if into its network. >> and there are roar cities that right now southwest isn't in, aren't there sm. >> there are about 37 that air tran flies to that southwest doesn't go to. so sout
he joins us from pittsburgh. i ben welcome, thanks for joining us. 1.4 billion is a lot of money and what's been tough times for the airlines, why is southwest doing this, what is driving this? >> there are ray couple of things. first of all, as you mentioned sot west has been at there for a while now. while they were the scrappy upstart in the '80s and even into the 9 0s. their business model is pretty mature at this point and there aren't many misses left for them to expand that are...
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they call us "wacky," they call us "wing nuts." we call us "we the people." >> holman: polls show conservatives are highly enthusiastic about voting this fall. the key for republicans may be to find common ground between the party's ideological purists and its political pragmatists. >> lehrer: and to the analysis of shields and brooks-- syndicated columnist mark shields, "new york times" columnist david brooks. david, how do you see the division as it's called between conservative social issues here, economic issues there, as was laid out in that piece? >> i don't think it's going to be a big problem f you looked at the glenn beck rally that mark and pri at. that was primarily-- used to be primarily a big government issue. but glenn beck was very religious. christine o'donnell, in many way come to this movement more through faith than through economics. and she was perfectly acceptable to the tea party voters and conservative voters in delaware. and i do think the merger of economics and values has risen to the floor. one thing you
they call us "wacky," they call us "wing nuts." we call us "we the people." >> holman: polls show conservatives are highly enthusiastic about voting this fall. the key for republicans may be to find common ground between the party's ideological purists and its political pragmatists. >> lehrer: and to the analysis of shields and brooks-- syndicated columnist mark shields, "new york times" columnist david brooks. david, how do you see the...